October 21, 2010
The internet poker section of Gaming Media Group?s Poker Heaven have bought the poker site Stella Poker whose projected target audience will be Croatia and Serbia and would constitute part of the International Poker Network (IPN), of which Poker Heaven is already a part. GMG?s business core will be hands-on, InTouch Gaming, a customized version […]
October 20, 2010
Dragonfish, the B2B division of 888 Holdings Plc, announced that French poker sites Full Fun and 888?s own site have gone live on the joint liquidity network, with ad Astra joining them in the coming week. The network, offers a suite of games, multiple tournaments and a fully customized poker solution, and is a joint […]
October 17, 2010
Antoanell Judet, former billiards champion, is the latest member of Team PokerStars Pro. He will be participating in online games at PokerStars.com under the screen name ?Toni Judet? and joins other celebrity names such as Boris Becker, Fatima Moreira De Melo and Sebastien Chabal. Judet began his poker playing career five years ago and has […]
October 14, 2010
Online poker operator Pokerstars has announced a new, 13 region series of tournaments for internet poker fans, pumping over $7 million into the project in the form of guaranteed prize pools. The PokerStars Regional Championships of Online Poker (RCOOP) will run in regions throughout the world, with players confined to the action within their region, […]
October 13, 2010
Unibet?s 2010 Open Valencia poker tournament produced a winner over the weekend as two days of action culminated in a win for Thomas Thang, perhaps better known up in the European north as president of the Danish Poker Federation. Thang bested an entry field of 361 in the Euro 1,500 buy-in event, winning a first […]
October 13, 2010
John Pappas, executive director of the Poker Players Alliance, has advised that the action group for the legalisation of online poker is to change its strategy in Washington state, lobbying lawmakers to change the state?s draconian anti-online gambling laws rather than fight cases through the courts. The PPA decision is no doubt motivated by the […]
October 12, 2010
Melbourne poker pro Martin Kozlov (23) turned a short starting stack into a A$195,700 victory in the A$2,700 buy-in main event of the Melbourne leg of the Pokerstars Australia and New Zealand Poker Tour this week. The local man bested a field of 310 entrants that generated a prize pool of A$775 000, ensuring that […]
October 8, 2010
The world’s largest internet poker room, Pokerstars.com, has been awarded an operational licence for internet poker by the Baltic nation of Estonia, taking its previously granted activity licence up a level. The licence positions Pokerstars among the first to legally offer internet poker within Estonia. The new dedicated Pokerstars site ? PokerStars.ee ? complies fully […]
October 8, 2010
News from Dublin, Ireland this week is that mobile poker fans have a new venue to play…and its claim to fame is that it is the first of its kind to offer real money action specifically for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. The new site Switchpoker.com is the result of three years development and offers […]
October 7, 2010
The Pokerstars UK and Ireland Tour Champion of Champions competition was appropriately named for David Vamplew this week; only a day after winning the EPT London main event for GBP900 000 and a EPT Grand Final seat (see previous report), the 23-year-old Scottish pro triumphed over eight other UKIPT winners. The winner-takes-all event took place […]